专题04 阅读理解七选五-高二英语下学期期末复习满分专题（人教）.docxVIP

阅读理解七选五 知高考-真题感悟 （2021·浙江1月）You run into the grocery store to pick up one bottle of water. You get what you need,head 1o the front, and choose the line that looks fastest.You chose wrong.People who you swear got in other lines long after you are already checked out and off to the parking lot. __31__ It turns out, its just math working against you;chances are,the other line really is faster. Grocery stores try to have enough employees at checkout to get all their customers through with minimum delay.____32______ Any small interruption-a price check, a chatty customer-can have downstream effects, holding up an entire line. If there are three lines in the store, delays will happen randomly⑤ at different registers. Think about the probability: _____33________So its not just in your mind: Another line probably is moving faster.单个现在分词作前置定语，说明被修饰名词的性质或特征等。 Researchers have a good way to deal with this problem.Make all customers stand in one long,snaking line-called a serpentine line-and serve each person at the front with the next available register._____34________ This is what they do at most banks and fast-food restaurants. With a serpentine line, a long delay at one register wont unfairly punish the people who lined up behind it. Instead, it will slow down everyone a little bit but speed up checkout overall. ______35_______ It takes many registers to keep one line moving quickly, and some stores cant afford the space or manpower.So wherever your next wait may be:Good luck. A.Why does this always seem to happen to you? B.So why dont most places encourage serpentine lines? C.Some of them may have stood in a queue for almost an hour. D.The chances of your line being the fastest are only one in three. E.How high is the probability that you are in the fastest waiting line? F.With three registers, this method is much faster than the traditional approach. G.But sometimes, as on a Sunday afternoon,the system gets particularly busy. 记忆卡片? = 1 \* GB3 ①head(=be headed) vi. 朝（某方向